Payback

I'm just gonna say, that 11:42 is the best and most amazing scene in TV history.

Since the review needs more characters, I gotta say Homelander is as terrifying as ever and is becoming more of a bratty child with each episode.

The plots are progression naturally and other than the first scene, mostly nothing was surprising or a twist and it was obvious the ending scene is gonna happen from the beginning. And I'm not saying that as if it's a bad thing in this episode, no, I'm just saying that it's the first episode and it's ok. They have to set up new plots and storylines, so I don't mind if the first episode is slower, even though I didn't feel like it was slow or boring at any point, enjoyed all of it.

The only thing that I think needed a little more work was the dialogue especially in the beginning and between Hughie and Starlight in the trailer. Kinda didn't feel like natural dialogue.

Other than that, they did a good job of reestablishing every character and setting up new plot lines for the upcoming episodes.

ANTONY STARR WAS BORN TO PLAY HOMELANDER!!! His performance is insane, it makes me feel like he's going to come out the screen and laser me! This season is already to an insane great start! The visuals are crazy! I can't wait to see what the rest of the season has to show us!!!!

After The Boys serves us with all the non stop crazy stuff in season 2, the opening episode is kinda a bit slow in pacing but the introductory to the characters and the build up on what happening next is amazing. It feels more like a movie and honestly feels different in tone.

I am praying Starlight's storyline doesn't descend into girl power nonsense. I hate how shows are so on-the-nose these days whenever they put anything having to do with "the message", whatever happened to subtlety? Starlight being promoted to co-captain feels organic but then the show has to outright explain the moment to us... we get it.

Every other scene was amazing and I just hope they can at least keep anything related to social justice to a minimum.

Great opening scene. The movie within a series. Looked nicely done. And I loved the female cameo - I wont spoil it here, but this is her 2nd cameo this year.

Amazon Prime should actually consider a real spin off movie of 'The Seven'. Not the 'behind the scenes' real personalities we see in this series, but their public personas. With a budget, that would definitely be watched.

As you'd expect, the rest of the ep is mostly set up for the season. But its still entertaining.

Highlights were the various Homelander, A-Train & The Deep scenes, plus the reality tv show casting with Supersonic (hopefully we see more of him).

The Hughie home & office scenes got a little boring. I mean, we got 2 separate scenes of him having lunch with his boss. I was like, come on, lets move it along. But apart from that it was good.